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i pi Terrible Flying Invading Broadway % I <' I .'*? ii- # ■ .i' i r'j‘ i ll i t H ' - r'/i was the bridge tournament given by the Ellenton chapter, U. D. C., at the home of Mrs. M. 'El Bush. Lovely spring flowers adorned i the rooms where the tables were arranged. At a late hour a delicious salad course was served. Proceeds from the party went to the education fund of the chapter. Miss Gladys Bush had as her house guest last week, Miss Dorothy Mc Leod, of North Auguta. W. P. Etchison and son, Preston, of Columbia, spent Sunday here with relatives. Mrs. W. D. Bush, who has been visiting the Etchisons for two weeks, came home with them. Mr. and Mrs. James Julien Bush, of Barnwell, were visitors heie Sun day* ‘ , Mrs. Mamie Merriman and son Gus Merriman, of Sumter, arrived Sunday for a visit with relatives. Miss Myrtle Mayes, who teaches at Silverstreet, is at home for the week end. " * “Sargon did more for me in a few weeks time than everything else com bined did in 25 years and gave me a nine pound gain in weight besides. The monster shown above, full of helium gas and 161) feet from tip to tip, was one of the balloons which marched down Broadway, New York, in a Christmas shopping parade delighting thousands of children. Ellenton Farmers to Form “Cuke” Group ft Co-op Association Planned at Meet* ing Held Saturday.—Barnwell Men Address Growers. Ellenton, Feb. 25.—Membeis of the Ellenton farm club and all farmers residing within ten or fifteen miles of Ellenton are invited to gather at Social and Personal News from Williston Williston, Feb. 22.—Hart’s Battery chapter, U. D. C., met at the home of the president, Mrs. A. S. Blanchard, on February 14. The home was lovely with quantities of early spring flow ers. ^ A very interesting program was carried ont as follows: “The Revenge of Hamish," by Sidney Lanier, was LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS FROM ELLENTON Ellenton, Feb. 22.—Miss Margaret Oswald and Miss Leila Mac* Cglesby left this week for Allendale, after spending the winter here with the former’s sister, Mrs. M. E. Bush. Miss Anne Glymph is in Andorson, spending several days with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Thames and children spent Sunday at Vamville STATE INSPECTOR SAYS v LIGHTS MUST BE SHOWN X’ Law Will Be Enforced, Linstedt in Giving Warning. s Declarers The friends of T. M. Keriip w0 learn with regret of his death, which occurred Monday afternoon at two </• clock at hia home near Healing Springs. Mr. Kemp is survived by his wif£ and three sons. Bidder IrritatiM disturbs your sleep, causes Burning or Itching Sensation, Backache or Leg Pains, making you feel tired, depressed, and discouraged, whi not try the Oyetex JS Hour TeeU If functional Bladder Irritation torn or Itching Seni xnal and discouraged, Wtor Don’t give up.' Get Cystex any drug store. Put it to the test. See for yourself what it does. Money hack if It doesn’t bring quick im provement, and satisfy you com pletely. Try Cjvlex today. Only 60a. For Sale by Deaaon’s Drug Store MONEY TO LOAN Loam made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT. Attomeys-at-Law Barnwell. S. C. read by Mrs. John Miley; “Sketches the auditorium of Ellenton school | of General John B. Gordon,” by Mrs. relatives! Friday night of this week at eight Tom Willis, and “Nullification,” by I J | William Edenfield, of Allendale, 1 was the guest* for dinner Thursday of Miss Hattie Newsom. o’clock to form a cucumber associa tion. The action was planned at a meeting of the club Saturday. The ^ plan contemplates the planting enjoyed by every one. Miss Rountree about 100 acres of cucumbers in The social hour was in charge of Miss Mayo Rountree and was greatly ,w! the vicinity and grading and packing will be systematised. One or two stand ard varieties will be adopted for planting by all growers. H. G. Boylston, farm agent of Barnwell County, was present it Saturday’s meeting, as well as Bright McConnell, Richmond County farm agent. In Barnwell County, 500 cars of cucumbers are shipped every year and growers have .reaped good re turns. The Barnwell association has 300 acres under contract for this year. * Mr. Boylston told of |he work being done in Barnwell County, and J. A. Cave, for a long time cne of the South’s largest truck growers, also discussed the question. Perry Bush of Barnwell, who Is interested in the sub ject told of the progress *of the or ganization of the grower*. Bright Connell * advised limited acreage in watermelons, but urged staple crops and declared he felt sure that peanuts would be a good crop this year. U?e of the iodine label on all watermelons and crates of vege tables was also urged by speakers. A large attendance is expected at the meeting Friday night and all farmers, hether members of the club or not, e urged to attend. Resolutions of sorrow* were passed upon the death of J .C. Bush, for many years a valued member of the club. A copy of the resolutions were sent to the family and inscribed in the minute book of the^club. The session concluded Vith a bar becue dinner served to members and guests. The club will meet in Marclv and discuss peanuts and soy beans as valuable crops. BLACKVILLE BANKS ON COMING CUCUMBER CROP Growers Plan One of Largest Acreages Ever Grown in That Section. Blackville, February 24.—Blackville boasts of being one of the oldest and largest cucumber markets. This year there will be one of the largest acre ages ever grown. There is a deter mination among the largest and best planters to put up the best graded crop ever grown. Already the plant ers are organizing in small co-opera tive associations to employ compe tent graders and put up a first-class graded and packed shipment. This was started last season by some of the largest planters. The in creased price for the well-graded and packed hampers will mean that it will be almost unanimously done here seanson. There will be a large acreage here English peas, lima beans, Irish po- tatos, tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons. The success of Blackville farmers in the cotton, corn and sweet potato contests has encouraged the farmers, and a great deal of intensive farming will be done. had arranged a very unique “Cupid’s archery” contest, the targets being velentine motifs attached to a large square of cardboard. Each guest was given three trials with Cupid bows and arrows. The prize, a heart shaped box of mints, was awarded the one having the highest score at the end of the contest. Mrs. Blanchard, assisted by Mrs. R. L, Hair and Mis. J. M. Lee, served a delicious two-course luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. Eme«t Givens moved this week from the Proth£p residence near the Methodist church into the house of Miss Madeline Porter, on ; Dicks street. The many friend* of Mr. William Melvin will be glad to know that he j is improving after an illness of Jfboufc^ ten days. He is expecting to be able to go back t6 work soon. Mrs. Q. A. Kennedy, Sr., is im proving at a convalescent hospital in Columbia. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Joyner, of W’agner, will regret to learn that their house was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Rev. S. T. Harvin returned home from the Baptist hospital Tuesday to the delight of his many friends throughout this section. W. E. Kitchings is improving af ter an operation at the University hos pital several days ago. Friends of M>s. N. Lybrand will re gret to Know that she underwent an operation at the Aiken hospital a few days ago, but will be delighted to know that she is improving. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Black moved to Simpsonville this week, where Mr. Black has bought and will take charge of a telephone system. The officers and teachers of the beginners’ department of the Sun day School of the Baptist church visited Mrs. Q. A. Kennedy, Sr., at Miss Eastway's. sanitarium, in Col umbia Tuesday. v-. , Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Kitchings, of Savannah, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Kitchings Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, of Valdosta, Ga., visited relatives in Williston this week, returning to their home Thursday, l^. Wilson will be pleas antly remembered here as Mias Alice Bolen. Mrs. Koster Corbett, of Wagener, spent this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Givbns. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Cadden, of Victoria, Texas, formerly of Williston, anounce the birth of a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on January 28. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Woodward, of Greenville, were week-end guests of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Woodward. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hair have re cently mpved from Aiken to Williston. Mrs. Ophelia McKerley and brother, Norman Pender, were guests Sunday, of Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Ahl. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Brinkley and Miss Mary Foreman. A lovely affair of last Friday night G. W. Lindstedt, State highway in spector, has announced that from this time on the law will be strictly en forced regarding all vehicles travel ing the public roads of the State showing lights. He states that a motor cop is now patrolling the roads of the. State, and that all violators will be carried before a magistrate. The law states that all automobiles must carry two front and one rear light, and good brakes. All trailers must carry a rear light. All wagons and buggies must carry a light or reflector. This notice is fair warning to all. Mrs. Robt. A. Patterson spent the week-end in Bennettaville with her parents. “For years I was crippled up with rheumatic pains in my arms and legs. I was very nervous and had awful headaches. I’d suffer with gascolic and smothering spells after meals, and the glands in my throat and neck would swell to the size of apples. I was so weak and rundown and lost so much flesh nobody thought I’d live. I’ve taken 4 bottles of Sargon, my rheumatic pains are almost gone, the swelling in my glands is hardly noticeable, my nerves are strengthened and I haven’t had the headache since the second bottle. Sargon Pills re lieved me entirely of a chronic case of constipation.” — Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 129 Hillside St., Asheville. The Best Pharmacy, Agents, Barn well, S. C. Advertise in The People Sentinel T. B. Ellia J. B. RLLI8 ENGINEERING 00. Laad Surveying a V ^ Lyndbarst, & C ADVERTISE IN The People- SentmaL One Hundred Years of Progress 03 T HE’’Great Highway of the Union” they called the Petersburg Railroad 100 years ago. A pretentious name for a fifty-nine mile rail road! But one that future years were to justify*. Reaching only from Petersburg, Virginia, to a ’’point one and one-half miles below the falls of the Roanoke River”, near the North Carolina Line, the Petersburg Railroad was the first of more than 100 railroads, later to make up the Atlantic Coast tine Railroad Company, that wrought a transformation in every phase of the life ot the entire Southeast. Here, along the co^f, one hundred years ago, was a land already old, its cities long established, but dependent upon trade and upon an agricul ture faced by growing competition. Everywhere progress was impeded by the lack of transportation. Planters along the coast and rivers could float their crops to market; a slow and risky process, but the only one available. Those of the interior most haul their produce to the nearest navigable water, usually at a cost too high for any but the most valuable commodities. Small wonder that the building of the Peters burg Railroad, the Richmond and Petersburg, the Wilmington & Raleigh and many others was welcomed by the farmers and merchants and at of tne t Advertise in The the rails. New New towns fatwlf <*atng into bearing. New impetus was given settlement and trade and travel hard times lay ahead for the early rail- There were long, lean years when crop failures and money panics, lack of credit and the necessity of constantly rebuilding and enlarging their facilities threatened tfieir existence. Today, because of fast, reliable railroad trans portation, the coastal lands, once used only for staple crops, send unnumbered trainloads of fruits ana vegetables to the markets of less favored sections. Florida, once considered more of ”an obstacle in the coasting trade than as an economic province”, reaps a harvest of gold from its citrus fruits and vegetables and is die Mecca of millions of vacation seekers. Industries undreamed of a few years ago now find in this section most favorable conditions for their plants. * The double track of the Atlantic Coast Line between Richmond and Jacksonville forms, in truth, the ’’Great Highway of the Union”, over which there moves a commerce vastly greater and more valuable than even the far-sighted founders of the Petersburg Railroad could have imagined. A net-work of lines throughout the Southeast enables many an otherwise isolated section to market its produce and gives encouragement to sound development. The South today is a land of unlimited oppor tunity. It fsces the future with confidence. The Atlantic Coast Line, whose constituent companies have aided die growth and progress of this rich section for the past century, is continuing to make steady and far-reaching improvements in its fa cilities and service so as to contribute, hi increas ing measure, to the development the coming years shall bring. r i f *J ■1 „ «y. ATLANTIC COAST LI N E The Standard Railroad of the South Mtd tf * mrkt tf sdmrtbmmti hj At JJm’Railroad, 9 f its earlieH conDitucnt compsnj ~